After 3.3 Upgrade, FeatureLayerCollectionManager.overwrite (using a zipped GDB) fails

Question

Hi all,

Having another issue with the 3.3 update.  This was working fine (and still is) on 3.2 Pro machines.  Using the FeatureLayerCollectionManager.overwrite() method fails on 3.3 machines.  I am simply passing in a path to a zipped file GDB as I have always done, no schema changes etc have been made.

The error result is 'The data file provided does not exist or could not be accessed. -- <class 'ValueError'>'

Again this exact script works fine on a 3.2 machine.

Any ideas would be great!

Thanks - Mike

Jordi-Monk-Developer · Answer

Today, I have encountered the same issue when running the "FeatureLayerCollectionManager.overwrite()" method with a 90 MB zipped file geodatabase. I was using Pro's Python (ArcGIS Pro 3.3.1, and arcgis.__version__ = 2.3.0).

When I ran the same script in a virtual environment where I had installed the 'arcgis' module v2.4.0, it ran without issues. From the image below, it seems that they wanted to prevent large files to be used, but not a single reference to this in the documentation.

If you are using Pro, I would suggest cloning the default virtual environment and updating the 'arcgis' module there.

An alternative would be to install the latest version of the 'arcgis' module in a standalone, virtual environment (completely decoupled from the Pro installation).

Nils-ErikDahlsten · Answer

I got the same problem using the arcgis python module in a script. It works with arcgis module version 2.2.0.4, but after that large zipped file geodatabases can't be used to overwrite a feature layer in AGOL.

/Nisse

EricKriener · Answer

just ran into this....did you open a ticket? It's clearly a bug...